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what is prompt?types of prompts?use of prompts?syntax of prompt?

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Last Update: January 28, 2008 Asked by: chim

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January 31, 2006 22:04:17

shirin

Member Since: November 2005 Contribution: 6

RE: what is prompt?types of prompts?use of prompts?syn...

Prompts act as questions that help users to customize the information in a report to suit their own needs.

I don't know of any types of prompts in ReportNet.

Using prompts is faster and easier than repeatedly changing the filter.

Cognos Report Studio provides several ways to create prompts. You can
• use the Build Prompt Page tool
• build your own prompt and prompt page
• create a parameter to produce a prompt
• create a Prompt directly in a report page

Shirin Khushnood

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February 02, 2006 05:28:22

joseph001

Member Since: January 2006 Contribution: 2

RE: what is prompt?types of prompts?use of prompts?syn...

The different types of Prompt are

Value prompt

Text Prompt

Date prompt

Time prompt

Date and time prompt

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February 06, 2006 05:13:13

joseph

RE: what is prompt?types of prompts?use of prompts?syn...

Syntax for Prompt would be =?prompt?

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February 09, 2006 20:23:03

dnyanesh

RE: what is prompt?types of prompts?use of prompts?syn...

The different types of prompts are

date prompt

Date and Time

Value

Search & Value prompt

Time

Cascading Prompt

Interval prompt

General prompt

For every prompt u have to set a query and parameter

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September 19, 2006 04:30:38

cheran

RE: what is prompt?types of prompts?use of prompts?syn...

Prompts are useful for giving dynamic values.this gives user more flexibility.

that is values at the run time.

as soon as a prompt is created ?PromptName? will be created.

there are lot of prompts like:

value prompt

date prompt

date and time prompt

generated prompt

select&search prompt.

even though prompt can be used in report as well as in prompt page.

its better to place yours in the later.

will be interesting once u start exploring the properties like static choices, default selections and others.

Have Fun!!!

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August 20, 2007 06:55:09

siraj

RE: what is prompt?types of prompts?use of prompts?syn...

A prompt is can be called as a Dynamic filter. Prompt is an end user object which allows the user in selecting the values to restrict the data returned from the DataBase. A prompt can be developed in 2 ways.

1.
Manually i.e., Syntax: ?Parameter name?
2. From Tools menu: Build prompt page

Types of Prompts are:

Date prompt,

Time prompt,

Date and Time prompt,

Value prompt,

Generated prompt,

Text prompt,

Interval prompt,

Select and Search prompt

Regards,
siraj.

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January 28, 2008 13:47:24

shaashish1

Member Since: April 2006 Contribution: 1

RE: what is prompt? Types of prompts?

Prompts act as questions that help users to customize the information in a report to suit their own needs. There are 8 Prompts in ReportNet.

- Text Prompt
- value Prompt
- Select and search prompt
- Date Prompt
- Time Prompt
- Date and Time Prompt
- Interval Prompt
- Generated Prompts

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